In Memory Of

WOOLLER, HARRY

Service Details
Age:
 25
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Rank:
 Fireman
Unit:
 S.S. Thistleglen (Sunderland)
Regiment:
 Merchant Navy
Date of Death:
 1941-09-10
Cause of Death:
 At 16.42 hours on 10 September 1941, U-85 fired a spread of two torpedoes at a ship in convoy SC-42 northeast of Cape Farewell and reported one ship sunk and another probably damaged after observing one hit and hearing a second detonation. However, only Thistleglen (Master Gordon Frederick Dodson), the ship of the vice-commodore, was hit by one torpedo and sank later. Three crew members were lost. The master, 39 crew members and six gunners abandoned ship in three lifeboats and two rafts and were picked up after about one hour by the Lorient, a straggler from the same convoy and landed at Belfast.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Panel 107.
Cemetery:
 TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 London
Country:
 United Kingdom
Additional Information
Born South Africa. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1939-1945